"Blackbird" wrote: > I'm trying to get a complete grip on %r. Is it true that the two programs > > a = '*anything the parser accepts*' > print '%r' % a > > vs. > > a = r'*anything the parser accepts*' > print "'%s'" % a > > always produce the same output, where *anything the parser accepts* can be > replaced with, well, anything the parser accepts?
no. %s does a str() on the object (if it's not already a string), while %r does a repr(). the raw string syntax has nothing to do with this. (see the builtin function section in the library reference for more on str() and repr()) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
